The Video Vortex program has been updated! Check out the updated program here.

Video Vortex 4 includes contributions by: Perry Bard, Natalie Bookchin, Maarten Brinkerink, Vito Campanelli, David Clark, Dagan Cohen, Cym and the Aethernauts, Alejandro Duque, Albert Figurt, Stefan Heidenreich, Jasmina Kallay, Sarah Késsene, Lev Manovich, Dalibor Martinis, Gabriel Menotti, Ana Peraica, Valentina Rao, Shelly Silver, Jan Simons, Amir Soltani, Antanas Stancius, Evelin Stermitz, David Teh, Vera Tollmann, Andreas Treske, Saša Vojković, Nenad Vukušić Sebastijan, Linda Wallace, Paul Wiersbinski, Kuros Yalpani, Emile Zile

Organized by the Department of Film and Video at the Academy of Arts University of Split and Platforma 9.81, in collaboration with the Institute of Network Cultures in Amsterdam.

(updated on May 17, 2009)

VIDEO VORTEX 4 IN SPLIT,
SCHEDULE 21 – 23 May 2009

///DAY ZERO: THURSDAY 21 MAY 2009

17:00 Screenings 1
Location: Kinoteka Zlatna Vrata
Trip – Natalie Bookchin (63 min.)
Q&A – Natalie Bookchin (Los Angeles), (20 min.)

19:00 Opening evening
Location: Multimedia Cultural Center
19:00 Word of Welcome by Geert Lovink, Miranda Veljačić and Dan Oki
19:10 Introduction speech by Lev Manovich (San Diego)
20:00 Exhibition opening with food/buffet
21:00 Emile Zile – Post-It Kino Performance
21: 45 Nenad Vukušić Sebastijan – VJ Performance

///DAY ONE: FRIDAY 22 MAY

Video Vortex Conference
Location: Multimedia Cultural Center

9:45 – 11:30 Tele-Image Research Strategies (Moderator Sabine Niederer)
- Andreas Treske (Ankara)
- Nathalie Bookchin (Los Angeles)
- Dalibor Martinis (Zagreb)
Discussion

COFFEE

11:45 – 13:45 The Database (Moderator Tomislav Medak)
- Maarten Brinkerink (Amsterdam)
- Kuros Yalpani (Munich)
- Albert Figurt (Rome)
- Alejandro Duque (Zurich)
Discussion

LUNCH

14:30 – 16:30 Video Art meets Web Aesthetics (Moderator Leila Topić)
- Vera Tollmann (Berlin)
- Vito Campanelli (Napoli)
- Sarah Késsene (Gent)
- Linda Wallace (Sydney/Amsterdam)
Discussion

BREAK

17:30 – 18:45 Screenings 2
Location: Kinoteka Zlatna Vrata
Shelly Silver – In complete world (53 min.)
Q&A – Shelly Silver (New York), (20 min.)

19:00 CONFERENCE DINNER

21:00 – 22:30 SCREENING 3 (presented by Dagan Cohen)
Location: Kinoteka Zlatna Vrata
Upload Cinema, http://www.uploadcinema.nl, March 2009 Edition ‘Engineering the Body,’ (90 min.).

///DAY TWO: SATURDAY 23 MAY 2009
(First bus to the Conference: 8:45, Second bus to the Conference: 9:00)

Video Vortex Conference
Location: Multimedia Cultural Center

09:45 – 11:45 Online Video Theories (Moderator Geert Lovink)
- Jan Simons (Amsterdam)
- Gabriel Menotti (London)
- Amir Soltani (Manchester)
- Stefan Heidenreich (Berlin)
Discussion

COFFEE

12:00 – 14:00 Online Video Narratives (Moderator Brian Willems)
- Jasmina Kallay (Dublin)
- David Clark (Halifax)
- Valentina Rao (Pisa)
- Paul Wiersbinski (Frankfurt)
Discussion

LUNCH

14:45 – 16:45 Politics of the Moving Image (Moderator Petar Milat)
- Saša Vojković (Zagreb)
- David Teh (Bangkok)
- Ana Peraica (Split)
- Antanas Stancius (Vilnius)
Discussion

COFFEE

17:00 – 18:30 Social Cinema (Moderator Dan Oki)
- Perry Bard (New York)
- Evelin Stermitz (Villach/Ljubljana)
- Dagan Cohen (Amsterdam)
Discussion

19:00 PERFORMANCE
Location: Multimedia Cultural Center
- ‘Cym and the Aethernauts’ (Walkersdorf / All over the world) (performance 30 min.)

20:00 CONFERENCE DINNER

22:00 CONFERENCE PARTY
Location: KOCKA CLUB

On 22-23 May, 2009 the fourth edition of Video Vortex will take place in Split, Croatia. The Department of Film and Video at the Academy of Arts University of Split and Platforma 9.81 will organize the event, in collaboration with the Institute of Network Cultures in Amsterdam. After previous events on online video and responses to YouTube in Brussels, Amsterdam and Ankara, this event will focus on the moving image on the Web.

We invite contributions for the following themes:

Telepresence and Web Aesthetics
Video meets Web aesthetics: how is the phenomenon of ‘telepresence’ incorporated in various art forms, such as music, theater, visual arts, literature and cinema? What are underlying aesthetics and what are the specific interface contexts?

Social Cinema
Has cinema found its way onto the Web? Did it change the essential features of cinema? What are the new possibilities of collaborative production? Does the future of film museums and cinematheques lie in online cinematic databases?

Architecture and Moving Image
Online video offers an immense database of moving images, which could be displayed in urban public space. What are the existing cinematographic visions of the future of the moving image in public space? (In films such as Blade Runner, Minority Report, Children of Men, etc.) Which visions can be directly implemented, and which will remain film scenography?

Video Sharing
What are the standards and alternatives for sharing, licensing and hosting moving images on the Web? This theme explores issues around the distribution, licensing, collaborative production, and video hosting.

Technology and politics of the moving image
What is the future of visual browsers? How does moving image production relate to cultural, technological and political dominance? Open standards and codex politics. Surveillance issues.

Literature and video online narrative
Narrative strategies on the Web. From screenplay writing with hypertext, the broadcasted self and narrative avatars to collective narrative processes leading to Web literature, tag based video narrativity, public journalism and performative real-time literature.

Please send in a 500-word abstract and a short bio to Dan Oki (danoki [at] xs4all.nl) before February 5, 2009.

During the Video Vortex in Split we will present five cinema events:
1) upload cinema 2) mobile phone cinema 3) social cinema 4) cinematic data base 5) performative cinema

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Please check out the Video Vortex reader: Geert Lovink and Sabine Niederer (eds.), Video Vortex Reader: Responses to YouTube, Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures,
2008. ISBN: 978-90-78146-05-6.
Available as a pdf here.